Round 5: Tossup 20

In a story by this author, the origins of a mysterious moving shadow and blueish sparks are explained in stories by the title very old woman. In another story by this author, a group of bakers turn against their favorite customer after she is seduced (10[1])by a soldier. A father only worries about the impact on his political prospects after his daughter’s suicide attempt in this author’s debut play The Philistines. In a play by this author, a character reading Fatal Love is hit on the head with a book and called a fool. An actor in that play by this author is inspired to seek help in a sanatorium but hangs himself when (10[1])Luka disappears. For 10 points, (-5[1])name this author who followed the lives of a group living in a shelter near the Volga in The Lower Depths. ■END■ (10[4]0[2])

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